I also leave it blank. I tried "Mrs. John L. Smith" to help me know whose wife she was, but that just didn't look right in reports... didn't make it obvious that I still needed to determine her name. Specifically, I do not enter the wife at all, unless I have some other information to enter for her (birth place, eg). --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams
________________________________ From: Jane Sarles <sarlesinsi...@gmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tue, February 14, 2012 8:36:30 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] What name to use? When I have an ancestor, whose given name I do not know, but for whom I have information to create and event, I should like to know what other people use for a given name. I have his son's name, but no clue as to his. Is it best to leave it blank, or give him a term such as "unknown", "father", "progenitor", etc.? Jane Sarles Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
